As today marks the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to Luna, I thought I'd share this great interview by the BBC of the only woman in the control room for its launch (audio only, with captions):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-49009476/apollo-11-they-d-never-had-a-woman-engineer > At 28-years-old, Joann Morgan was the only woman in the control room for the > launch of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, 50 years ago. > > Morgan was the instrumentation controller - responsible for 21 channels of > communications and the health and welfare of all the monitoring systems for > the Saturn 5 rocket that carried the Apollo spacecraft into space. > > She told BBC Today programme presenter Mishal Husain about the experience. Also, if you haven't seen it, see Hidden Figures. If you've been resisting because you're worried it's a "message film," don't. It's better than you think. All of the leads turn in fantastic performances. -Joan "Bang! Zoom, Alice!" Touzet
